How to Use folkway in a Sentence

folkway

noun

• To anyone unversed in the folkways of official Britain, the Green-Cameron exchange would seem strange.
  — Suzi Ring, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• There have been far fewer attempts made to treat Democrats as a foreign tribe, to eat their food and understand their folkways.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Yet more striking to me, as a former director of the Nixon Library, are the similarities, some of which may be surprising to those not steeped in the folkways of Nixonland.
  — Tim Naftali, Slate Magazine, 9 Mar. 2017
• His contempt for tourists and transplants who don’t abide the old folkways is uncompromised — young people show up to get drunk and defile the East Village, never to teach poor children in Brownsville.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• Villamere says that in Newfoundland, wild berries are about folkways, such as the prized molasses-partridgeberry jam tart and salt-cod sandwich with jam and cheddar.
  — Rebecca Powers, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• The conventions, the assumptions, the folkways, of American life were under siege everywhere.
  — David Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Otherwise, discharge petitions are considered an existential threat to leadership and to the mores and folkways of the House.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018
• But the practices and superstitions that govern family life are purely of a specific time and place, when local folkways were swept away by high-tech savagery.
  — WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• The locations are attractive, the performances are natural, and the details about local folkways are interesting, but the plot is a bit dull in spots, if only because the moral divisions are fairly simplistic.
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 26 Feb. 2018
• What connects certain television shows, movies and stage productions to ancient folkways is a particular blend of novelty and familiarity.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018

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